[GRASS-dev] Re: GRASS-dev] grass fails to detect wxpython version

[Michael Barton]

Massimo,

At the moment, I'm too tied up to be able to do much. But I did just install a new wxPython and noticed that you can get a binary for 2.8.10.11 that supports Python 2.7 now.

Michael
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On Oct 15, 2010, at 1:07 AM, Massimo Di Stefano wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Michael, yes it is not backward compatible,
> i have commented out some lines in 4 different files in the gui source,
> 
> globarcar.py (lines 41,42,61,62)
> wxgui.py (line 112)
> ghelp.py (line 103)
> mapdisp.py (line 132)
> 
> now the gui start but is not usable due to the commented code.
> 
> Generally i can see the code lines where we set an icon file, is no longer working on wx 2.9.
> 
> On osx snow leopard the lack of cocoa support from wx 2.8 is a bad problem
> .. actually i'm using python2.7 (i386 + x86_64)
> and no wx 2.8 binay are avaiable ... so i had to stay on tcltk 
> (or using a custom gui i'm working on, done in pyqt but is pretty immature yet)
> i tried the wx2.9 snapshot demos and it works pretty fine, seems 2.9 is near to be mature.
> 
> i can give you my time offering support to build and test grass gui using wx2.9 
> and providing logs and tentative of debug.... but unlucky i've not a good knowledge of wxgrass and wx itself. 
> 
> Please let me know if make sense for you and what do you think about.
> 
> maybe is the case to switch this discussion to the gui mailing list?
> 
> 
> thanks a lot!
> 
> Massimo.
> 
> Il giorno 15/ott/2010, alle ore 09.23, Michael Barton ha scritto:
> 
>> OK. Keep us posted. I'm concerned that wxPython 2.9 is not backward compatible.
>> 
>> Michael
>